Drawing and Painting the NudeA Course of 50 Lessons by Philip Tyler
$54.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Artists have always been fascinated with portraying the nude: the beauty and nuances of the human figure are endlessly absorbing. This practical and inspirational book celebrates and continues that enduring and beautiful tradition by encouraging you to discover your own talent and style. Philip Tyler lo ...Show more
The Shadow Drawing : How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint by Francesca Fiorani
$36.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated as the epitome of genius. He was the masterful painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, and the visionary inventor who anticipated airplanes, hot-air balloons, and other technological marvels. But what was the connection between Leonardo the paint ...Show more
Van Gogh Inspiration Sketchbook: Be Inspired by One of the World's Great Artists by Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art History
"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."-Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, October 22, 1882, to Theo van Gogh Artistic inspiration abounds in the Van Gogh Museum Sketchbook featuring spot art by one of the world's great arti ...Show more
Spirit Country Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art by Jennifer Isaacs
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Indigenous artists have brought their culture to the international stage from the breadth of the Australian continent and its surrounding islands. Spirit Country explores the vibrant contemporary Aboriginal art that has caught the eyes of the Western art world but for those who make them they are also r ...Show more
Bright Stars: Great Artists Who Died Too Young by Kate Bryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History
In Bright Stars, Kate Bryan examines the short lives and long legacies of artists who died before their time. In this personal, persuasive and evocative book, Kate introduces some of the most inspiring people in art and examines the myriad ways that death can affect the course of art history. 'Bryan's w ...Show more
Art and Fear - Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Ted Orland; David Bayles
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. Drawing on the authors' own experiences as two working artists, the book delves into the internal and external challenges to makin ...Show more
The Diary of Frida Kahlo - An intimate self-portrait by Frida Kahlo; Sarah M. Lowe; Carlos Fuentes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions in the complex personal life of this remarkable M ...Show more
Men to Avoid in Art and Life by Nicole Tersigni
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Men to Avoid in Art and Life Ser.
Men to Avoid in Art and Life pairs classical fine art with modern captions that epitomize the spirit of mansplaining. This hilarious book perfectly captures those relatable moments when a man explains to a woman a subject about which he knows considerably less than she does. Situations include men sha ...Show more
Alice Neel - People Come First by Kelly Baum; Randall R. Griffey; Meredith A. Brown (Contribution by); Julia Bryan-Wilson (Contribution by); Susanna V. Temkin (Contribution by)
$72.95 AUD
Category: Art History
Positioning Alice Neel as a champion of civil rights, this book explores how her paintings convey her humanist politics and capture the humanity, strength, and vulnerability of her subjects "For me, people come first," Alice Neel (1900-1984) declared in 1950. "I have tried to assert the dignity and ete ...Show more
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body by Caroline Vout
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis 'A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me in my tracks' Peter Frankopan 'Impressive ... sublime' Jimmy Mulville The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to sit up ...Show more
Left Bank - Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 by Agnès Poirier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art History
An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumph ...Show more
Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy by Martin Gayford, David Hockney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Reading Level: near fine
The Sunday Times bestseller: David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at ba ...Show more